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Description: | Five ms diaries (120pp, 364pp, 384pp, 282pp and 47pp), with illustrated ts transcription (124pp), written during his service with the 7th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers (45th Brigade, 15th Division until February 1918, then 59th Division) training in the United Kingdom, December 1914 - July 1915, and on active service on the Western Front, July 1915 - May 1918, until the battalion was reduced to cadre strength and he was transferred to the 1st Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers (8th Brigade, 3rd Division) in August 1918, almost immediately being wounded and evacuated back to the Yeatman Hospital in Sherborne, Dorset, where he was to remain until his demobilisation in April 1919; describing in daily entries his enlistment and arrival in France, trench warfare, his billets, food and living conditions, his duties as a company signaller, involvement in the Battles of Loos (September 1915), the Somme (August - November 1916), Arras (April - May 1917) and Third Ypres (July - August 1917), recreational activities including visits to YMCA huts, religious meetings and concerts, periods spent on leave, German prisoners, souvenir hunting, burial of the dead, aerial warfare and visits to aerodromes, a period in a rest camp at Boulogne (August 1917) and Christmas celebrations. Together with an embroidery of the Royal Scots Fusiliers badge completed in September 1918 while he was hospitalised.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2001-11-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Sporton, B V | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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